If an employee appeals against your decision to dismiss them, you’ll need to arrange to hear their appeal. However, what’s the legal position where you either uphold their appeal or wish to impose an
alternative penalty, such as demotion?
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that ensuring equality of terms after twelve weeks for agency workers requires an individual term approach. What should you be doing in response to this
ruling?
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There’s no longer any such thing as “the UK” for employers, the devolved administrations have control over much of what you do and how you do it. Student loans is a case in point. What do you need to
know?
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Childcare service failures..The rules on signing up for Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) mean employees must give up childcare vouchers within three months. Ending salary sacrifice for vouchers costs the
employer 13.8% in NI, or 14.3% if they’re big enough to pay the apprenticeship levy. Now might be the time to tempt employees back to vouchers to reinstate...
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After a very long and phased rollout, the controversial Universal Credit, a new benefit to support those who are working and on a low income or those out of work, is ramping up. But what is the
interaction with RTI data?
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Don’t ignore child benefit says HMRC..In January 2013 HMRC introduced the high income child benefit charge (HICBC) designed to tax child benefit paid to families where one of the parents has income
exceeding £50,000. Following negative press commentary earlier in 2017 HMRC has urged parents who have cancelled the benefit still to register, but simply...
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Back in 2015 Scotland broke away from the rest of the UK and introduced its own approach to income tax. So where are we now and what does the future hold for payroll north of the border?
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HMRC clarifies OpRA rules for cars.. Since 6 April 2017 employees who have entered a new lease contract and given up salary in exchange for a company car with CO2 emissions of 76g/km or more have
been subject to new tax rules. There is a two-step calculation of the benefit in kind (BiK) called the “modified cash equivalent”. It uses as its starting...
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An unwelcome consequence of the hugely successful policy to get nine million people into workplace pensions is that the bill for tax relief has now reached an eye-watering £50 billion per year. So
what might happen next?
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